It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

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That is to say, someone with sufficient political audacity to create their own authority, who has not simply received it from the past, but to create their own authority.

也就是说,他或她必是一位具有足够政治勇气,且能创造其自身威信的人，而非单纯只是接受过去的遗产，更是创造其自身的威信。

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